Thanks for joining me on my crafty journey. I'm now retired which gives me the chance to spend a lot more time indulging myself in my crafty habit!!!
I'm part of four Design Teams and absolutely love the work I do with them.
It's very exciting to get your work shown on TV and I never cease to get excited when a show is coming up. It's lovely to see what the team have produced.
I appreciate all my followers on my blog and thank you all so much for following my journey.

Friday, 19 July 2013

My favourite technique using Splodgeaway masks is embossing craft metal. Sometimes I cover the embossed metal with Acrylic paint and then take a lot of the paint off. This way the paint stays in the embossed bits of the metal.

On this occasion I decided to leave off the acrylic paint and have a clean look.

I made two embossed backgrounds and on the first card used a piece of ribbon and a Happy Birthday sentiment, this was then matted onto black card.

On the second card I added a piece of craft metal which was heat embossed in black and using an Oak Tree stamp. All the elements were then mounted on to 8 x 8 Kraft card.

I've added a photo to show how deep the pattern is when using the Splodgeaway masks as an embossing tool.

Have you entered the Claritystamp Challenge Blog yet? There's a £50 voucher to be won so why not have a go.

Each month we get entries from very talented crafters - well done everyone you never let us down.

This month the theme is Seaside. For my card I used the clarity Lighthouse stamp which, once stamped with Stazon,I covered with a Versamark pen and clear embossing powder. With a craft knife I cut around the lighthouse until I could get my Spellbinders die behind it to cut out an aperture.

I then stamped the Clarity Mermaid stamp (just its tail), again in Versamark, and embossed it with Wow Platinum embossing powder. I also used the same stamp, just the hair of the mermaid this time, to stamp around the aperture with Versamark. I used blue Panpastel to cover the ink and blended all around the aperture.

I then took several colours of Panpastel to make a sea scene, stamped the Clarity flock of birds, and this was then taped into the inside of the card with double sided tape. A couple of shells and a piece of "pretend" seaweed completed this months offering.